On 04/17/2014 02:34 PM, Manu via Digitalmars-d wrote:
On 17 April 2014 21:57, John Colvin via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d@puremagic.com <mailto:digitalmars-d@puremagic.com>> wrote:On Thursday, 17 April 2014 at 11:31:52 UTC, Manu via Digitalmars-d wrote: ARC offers a solution that is usable by all parties. ... You can't use a GC in a low-memory environment, no matter how it's designed. It allocates until it can't, then spends a large amount of time re-capturing unreferenced memory. As free memory decreases, this becomes more and more frequent.
What John was trying to get at is that the two quoted statements above are in contradiction with each other. An GC is a subsystem that automatically frees dead memory. (Dead as in it will not be accessed again, which is a weaker notion than it being unreferenced.)
Maybe the distinction you want to make is between ARC and tracing garbage collectors.
